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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill
British politician (1874 - 1965)

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

Titus Maccius Plautus, Captivi
Roman comic dramatist (254 BC - 184 BC)

The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.

Publilius Syrus
(~100 BC)

Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.

Chilo

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Sir Francis Bacon
English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626)

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

Saint Basil
Greek saint & church father (329 AD - 379 AD)

Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

Mother Teresa, -- Letter to U.S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991.
Indian humanitarian & missionary (1910 - 1997)

Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

Ernest Hemingway, "The Old Man and the Sea"
US author & journalist (1899 - 1961)

I believe that its most important function is in the formation of attachment. If we did not suffer enough loss to fear it, we could not love intensely.

Andrew Soloman, ?The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression?, on his belief that grief is profoundly important for the human cond

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

John Steinbeck
US novelist (1902 - 1968)

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.

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The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

E. V. Lucas

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.

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There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

Titus Plautus

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Seneca
Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD)

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

J. M. Barrie

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